Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short months, Zambia has found eleven routes around the block ade, which Rhodesia started as retaliation against Britain. British, American and Canadian airlifts are bringing in oil from ports on both the Atlantic and Indian oceans, while trains, trucks, lake boats and barges are hauling it in from as far away as Dar es Salaam (transportation costs run as high as $3.50 per gallon). Last week negotiations were under way for yet another airlift-this one from Mozambique, whose Portuguese rulers may sympathize with Prime Minister Ian Smith and his white rebels but who long ago learned to cover their...
...even if it failed to block the route through pressure, the Institute might logically expect that the federal government would be willing to help relocate any destroyed laboratories. Urban renewal, and the multiple forms of scientific, defense and educational grants would presumably provide ample and flexible tools for this purpose...
June--Dietz meets with Governor Peabody and asks him, in vain, to block a bill permitting the Coop to build a bridge over the street...
...matter of personal honor -- a vote for the tax is a vote for the incumbent Republican Governor and against himself. Appealing to his colleagues' personal loyalty, the powerful legislative leader has twice managed to defeat sales tax proposals that had passed the House. He may well be able to block the Governor's seventh proposal which cleared the House late Friday night...
...Senate. There is no need for further debate because the participants' positions and the will of the people are already all too apparent. Additional delay can only result in the intensification of the problems that both sides admit must be solved immediately. Donahue may still have the power to block passage of the measure, although the mood of the voters and the trend within the legislature is clearly against him. His choice is either to continue the selfish political maneuvering which has proved so destructive in the past twelve months or to face up to the problems which he should...